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    The Civil Rights Movement: An Interactive History Adventure
    The Civil Rights Movement: An Interactive History Adventure
    The Civil Rights Movement: An Interactive History Adventure
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    The Civil Rights Movement: An Interactive History Adventure

    By Heather Adamson

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    Everything in this book happened to real people. And YOU CHOOSE what side you’re on and what you do next. The choices you make could lead you to survival or to death. In the You Choose Books set, only YOU can CHOOSE which path you take through history. What will it be? Get ready for an adventure…
    LanguageEnglish
    PublisherCapstone Young Readers
    Release dateAug 1, 2016
    ISBN9781515743279
    The Civil Rights Movement: An Interactive History Adventure

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      The Civil Rights Movement - Heather Adamson

      TABLE OF CONTENTS

      Cover

      Title Page

      About Your Adventure

      Chapter 1:A World Divided

      Chapter 2: The Little Rock Nine

      Chapter 3: Riding for Freedom

      Chapter 4: Bombingham, 1963

      Chapter 5: The Battle for Equality

      Timeline

      Other Paths to Explore

      Read More

      Internet Sites

      Glossary

      Bibliography

      Copyright

      Back Cover

      For the best You Choose experience,

      view in portrait (vertical) orientation.

      ABOUT YOUR ADVENTURE

      YOU are living in the United States during the time when African Americans aren’t treated equally. Will you join in the movement to bring civil rights to all Americans?

      In this book, you’ll explore how the choices people made meant the difference between life and death. The events you’ll experience happened to real people.

      Chapter One sets the scene. Then you choose which path to read. Follow the links at the bottom of each page as you read the stories. The decisions you make will change your outcome. After you finish one path, go back and read the others for new perspectives and more adventures. Use your device's back buttons or page navigation to jump back to your last choice.

      YOU CHOOSE the path you take through history.

      CHAPTER 1

      A World Divided

      Life in the southern United States is divided. Black and white people attend separate schools. They sit in separate areas in buses, restaurants, and theaters. Even drinking fountains and bathrooms are separated by race. And blacks have the lesser things. Old, broken-down schools. Seats in the back of the bus. Outhouses on the edge of town. Things have been this way for longer than you can remember.

      For several hundred years, white people had forced African Americans into slavery. After the Civil War (1861–1865), life in the United States changed. The 13th Amendment to the Constitution made slavery illegal.

      Schools for African Americans were much poorer than the schools for white students.

      African Americans, often called Negroes, blacks, or coloreds, were free. White Southerners worried about going from owning black people to being on an equal footing with them. White people were afraid of what would happen to their towns, schools, and churches when people from a different culture joined them.

      White Southerners found an answer. They decided to keep whites and blacks separate. The Supreme Court supported the idea. In an 1896 case called Plessy vs. Ferguson, the Court said separate but equal was fair. The South began a life of segregation.

      Southern states also passed Jim Crow laws. These laws make it difficult for black citizens to vote, get good jobs, or a good education. The laws also keep blacks from protesting their treatment. Groups like the Ku Klux Klan terrorize and kill African Americans who defend themselves.

      But African Americans know they are equal to white citizens. By the 1950s, many are working for change. In 1954, lawyers won a big U.S. Supreme Court case, Brown vs. Board of Education of Topeka. The Court ruled that separate is not equal. Southern schools must accept students of all races.

      After the Supreme Court decision, even more blacks demanded civil rights. In Montgomery, Alabama, in 1955, a black woman named Rosa Parks refused to give up her bus seat to a white man. After she was arrested, blacks quit riding Montgomery buses in protest. This bus boycott lasted

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